Obama Describes Nigerian As ‘Isolated Extremist,’ Despite Ties to Yemen

From CNSNews.com:
President Barack Obama, in his first public comments on the attempted bombing of a U.S. airliner traveling from Amsterdam to Detroit, described the suspect as “an isolated extremist,” despite reports that the 23-year-old Nigerian had been trained in Yemen, a country he visited twice.
The Associated Press, quoting a Yemeni government official, said Umar Farouk [...]

Obama’s statement on the Christmas Day jihadi attack; Perfunctory, hasty, and bloodless

From Michelle Malkin:
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President Obama is scheduled to make a public statement this afternoon on the Christmas Day jihadi attack at around 3pm Eastern.
Sure bet: He won’t use the word “jihad.”
Via AP:
The White House says President Barack Obama is preparing to make his first public statement on the Christmas Day terrorist attack and describe [...]

Obama Surrenders U.S. Sovereignty: His INTERPOL Executive Order

From Pajamas Media:
At ThreatsWatch.org, Steve Schippert and Clyde Middleton have dug up the bizarre and unsettling issuance of an executive order recently signed by President Barack Obama. Executive Order — Amending Executive Order 12425, signed December 16 and released a day later, grants the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) rights on American soil that place [...]

Obama’s Image: What a Difference a Year Makes

From American Thinker:
Almost a year has passed since January 20, 2009 — when the waters of the ocean no longer rose and America began to heal from the depredations of Republicans. Barack Obama has been our president for that long, and the people have started to wise up.
The light that shines on Barack Obama as [...]

Obama’s ‘Most Important Message’ Of Christmas?

From Chuck Norris at Townhall.com:
As I wrote last week, I knew that President Barack Obama’s Christian message in his Christmas address was going to be the weakest in presidential history. But never did I expect to hear him dodge children on the main message of Christmas and then teach them a revised version.
Here’s the actual [...]

Iranian Protesters Are Dying for Freedom – Where is Obama?

From The Heritage Foundation:
I wrote back in June about the shameful silence of the Obama administration during the mass street protests that greeted Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s fraudulent re-election victory as President of Iran. As White House spokesman Robert Gibbs ludicrously put it, the administration was “impressed by the vigorous debate and enthusiasm this election generated.” Or [...]

Health Care, Barack Obama, and the U.S. Constitution

From Townhall.com:
Who cares about the U.S. Constitution, when Barack Obama’s vision for America is weighing in the balance?
Don’t count on the U.S. Congress to care.
In the aftermath of the Senate’s passage of an Obamacare bill, Attorney’s General from multiple states have begun to announce that they are launching investigations into the legality, and constitutionality of [...]

Obama Downplays Terror Threat

From NewsMax.com:
A “miracle on Christmas Day” prevented nearly 300 people from being killed by a terrorist attack aboard a transcontintental flight, but failure to connect the dots could be the United States’ Achilles heel, U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman told Fox News Sunday.
Lieberman, the top senator on the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, said a [...]

Obama Claims To “Give Nicer Gifts Than He Gets”

When asked about gift-giving during an interview last week with Oprah, Barack Obama stated, “I give nicer stuff than I get.”
Oh, really?
How about when British Prime Minister Gordon Brown visited Obama back in March? Brown brought him an ornate pen holder carved from the wood of the anti-slavery ship, the HMS Gannet, the sister ship [...]

China warns Obama deficit spending must stop

From World Net Daily:
One day after the Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao snubbed President Obama at the United Nation’s Copenhagen Climate Summit, the Chinese warned the United States that China’s ability to continue buying U.S. Treasury debt was limited.
Zhu Min, the deputy governor of the People’s Republic of China, told the Shanghai Daily that it [...]